[rspec-users] a better "should have valid associations"

[aslak hellesoy]

On 3/31/07, Dave Astels <dastels at daveastels.com> wrote:
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> On 3/29/07, Josh Knowles <joshknowles at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 3/29/07, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com> wrote:
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> AWESOME! I'm so psyched to see a plugin emerging for this.
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> I second that.
> I'll play devils-advocate.. what does all this have to do with specifying
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Probably not much, but can't we say that about most of RSpec's
built-in matchers? Like for example:

foo.should match(/bar/)

What does that have to do with behaviour?

> From a specification point of view, do I care that there's a valiadtor for a
> field?  I don't think so... I'm more concerned with what happens when I try
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> model is an implementation detail.
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> That said, it's great stuff for a plugin.
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I've been thinking - would it make sense to modify the rspec_resource
generator to generate specs that use the matchers provided by Josh's
plugin? It would be possible to infer from foreign key fields passed
as arguments to the generator (name:string project_id:integer) etc.

Aslak

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